112 AGRICn:^TUrvAL appropriation bill, 1924. 



8-ounce bottle of fluid. AVe examined it and found it was 90 \)0v 

 cent water and 1 per cent carbolic acid. lie made a <rreat deal of 

 money sellintr it to the dairy farmers all over the country until 

 the department published the results. The dairy papers took it up. 

 and now his business has ceased. 



Mr. Ri'CHAXAN. It did no ijood at all? 



Doctor MoHLEK. Not at all. 



^Ir. Anderson. This man I six>ke of submitted his ])roposition to 

 youi' people, and they declined to inspect it. apparently on the «rrountl 

 that it disturbed your scientific work in some way. 



Doctor MoHLER. The only thinjsr I know about the case is that one 

 of our men at the show brou*rht me the advertisement of this fellow, 

 who I understand has a very prominent dair}' man in the company 

 with him. "What is his name? 



Mr. Anderson. I think his name is Cushman. 



Doctor IMoiiLER. The information was broujrht to me from St. 

 Paul as an advertisement, but he has never submitted, as far as I 

 know, any request to have the medicine tested, or anything of that 

 kin^. In those kind of cases we always ask for information as to 

 the ingredients. "When these manufacturers of medicines submit 

 their samples to us the}^ usually want a testimonial as to their good 

 merits, etc., but we always request that the ingredients be told to us 

 before we make any investigation at all. We get those kind of letters 

 from all over the country, probably two or three a week, claiming 

 cures for tuberculosis, cholera, Texas fever, roup, and abortion. 

 Some of the letters show such illiteracy you can hardly read them, 

 and yet the writers believe they have absolute cures for these various 

 diseases. I do not know the merits of that individual case. 'Sir. 

 Chairman. 



Mr. Anderson. I do not know, either. 



Doctor INIoHLER. Mr. Cushman is a very good dairATnan and a 

 very fine business man. I think he is in a bank up there, too. 



ERADICATION OF HOG €H0LERA. 



The next item is on page 64, " For investigatino; the disease of 

 hog cholera, and for its control or eradication." This work is being 

 carried on in cooperation with 34 States. 



Eighty-one bureau veterinarians devote their entire time to hog 

 cholera field work, and, in addition, the inspector in charge of 

 bureau work in 23 States devote a jjart of their time to it, making 

 a total of approximately 91 department veterinarians engaged in 

 hog cholera work in the field this year. 



State regulatory authorities, State agricultural colleges, farmers' 

 organizations, live-stock organizations, veterinary i)ractitioners, 

 bankers, i)ig clubs, live-stock owners, and any otln'r organization or 

 individual intci-csti'd and willing to assist, cooperate with us in this 

 work. 



liulletins, articles on the diseases, an*l press notices of outbreaks, 

 public adihvsses, interviews with farmei's in tlu* hog lot. ixistcrs, 

 lantern slides and moving pictures, are mediums used in our edu- 

 cational work. 



A veterinarian is assignetl to a district covering a numbei* of 

 counties. lie keeps in close touch with the hog-cholera situation 



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